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Families were transported by sea from the Baltic States and by train from other territories. The German government arranged for the transfer of their furniture and personal belongings. All immovable property was sold, with the money being collected by the Nazis and not given back to the families.
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by the Nazis), from the Baltic States by the use of propaganda. This included using scare tactics about the Soviet Union and led to tens of thousands of Soviets leaving. Those who left were not referred to as refugees, but were rather described as
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Hitler's plan was to invade western Poland (having assigned the eastern part to the Soviet Union in the pact) and then force all non-German people (mostly Polish citizens) out of their homes and either use them for
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Notwithstanding, Hitler had a plan to attract these German-speaking people into Nazi Germany. However, he also believed that the 1937 borders and territories of Nazi Germany, i.e. before the
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were assigned the task of overseeing these evictions to ensure that the Polish left behind most of their belongings for the use of the settlers. Once they were settled, the process of
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The transported ethnic Germans were initially kept in camps for racial evaluation, to prevent intermixing with the native German population. There they were divided into groups: A,
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area. Once these territories were free of non-Germans, the population transfers could begin with ethnic Germans settling in the homes of the expropriated Polish.
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With the largest number of ethnic Germans living in Russia, Hitler knew that he could not resettle all these people without the full cooperation of
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This was an intentional act designed to disconnect the displaced people from their former homeland. The value of the
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The planned transfers were first announced to the ethnic Germans and the general public in October 1939.
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Source: Dr. Gerhard Reichling, Die deutschen Vertriebenen in Zahlen, Teil 1, Bonn 1995, Pages 23–27
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and the reciprocal transfer of ethnic German and Russian people to their native countries.
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Ethnic Germans were evacuated from territories occupied by the Soviets in 1940, notably
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Reichling's figures do not include parts of the more than 200,000 ethnic Germans from
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to arrange a pact of non-aggression with the Soviet Union. This became known as the
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left behind was to be compensated in cash and Polish property in occupied Poland.
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There were millions of ethnic Germans living outside German borders, mostly in
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that took place from 1939 to 1941. These transfers were part of the German
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and the Soviet Union. In late August 1939 (a week before the invasion of
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depicted the ethnic Germans as deeply persecuted in their native lands.
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The Nazis set out to encourage the return of the ethnic Germans (called
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of territories in Central and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet
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European Population Transfers, 1939–1945 by Joseph B. Schechtman
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who fled in the autumn of 1944 and who were directed into the
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Index

Nazi-Soviet population exchange
Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
Expulsion of Sudeten Germans following the end of World War II
Flight and expulsion of Germans during
and after World War II

demographic estimates
1944–50 flight and expulsion of Germans
German–Soviet population transfers
Potsdam Agreement
German evacuation
East Prussia
Czechoslovakia
Poland (incl. former German territories)
Netherlands
Romania
Refugees in Schleswig-Holstein
Emigration from Poland
Wolf children
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t
e
a series
Forced population transfer
in the Soviet Union

Dekulakization
Evacuation
Forced settlements
Gulag
Azerbaijanis from Armenia
Balkars
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Chechens and Ingush

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